[Eve's soft rasping voice begins to tell you a story. Her tone seems a bit distant, distracted, as she recites it from memory:]An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life ( Read more... )

Wow..! Halloween-time already! Time really does fly, doesn't it?

I've heard there's already a haunted house in the courtyard, and it sounds like a lot of fun! So, I was wondering .. would anyone mind coming with me later on? I'd really like to go, but.. I'm a bit scared to go by myself. [ She shyly laughs a little-- which causes a couple of small ( Read more... )

[The feed clicks on to show a man who seems to be in his thirties sitting in a chair, his normally fox-like face set in a troubled expression as he steeples his hands in front of very pursed lips. This guy, whoever he is, seems to be having some trouble]

Alright. I have kept quiet about this for far too long, but I thought I might, just might be ( Read more... )

[There's a boy in a white coat making his way around the floors of SPHERE HQ. He's carrying an odd-looking backpack, one hand on one of its straps and the other holding onto his NEXUS device to rely on its light while he glances at his surroundings. Eventually he stops to look down at the device, busying himself with following the tutorial's ( Read more... )

[He may have experienced lifetimes where the noise of mechanized objects was completely absent but following the Industrial Revolution and all that followed England has grown quite accustomed to the familiar presence of noise, from plane, trains, automobiles and more.  The constant electric hum that could be heard throughout this new and still ( Read more... )

[okay, so the power outage isn't really a big deal to Jesse. neither is the storm; he's dealt with scarier things than a little bit of lightning, most of them part of one Vocal Adrenaline dance routine or another. but there is one thing in all this that prompts him to finally get back on the network, for the first time since ... stuff happened ( Read more... )

Residents of Ceriu,

Thanks to the hard work of Dylan Frost and the other scientists, the JLE has been given access to a pair of sentry bots. Please do not be alarmed if you see either of these wandering the halls. They will do you no harm. I ask for your patience and cooperation while we continue to work out the details ( Read more... )

[The screen appears to be of a random wall/part of the ceiling at first, as if the device was laying somewhere, unattended. No. It hadn't turned itself on all by itself. A few moments later there was suddenly a puppy's face, taking up the whole screen. In other words, it was mostly just a black nose surrounded by white until it backed away a ( Read more... )

[As the video flicks on, Finn looks, well, nervous. Anxious and out of sorts and definitely uncertain about what he wants to say.

Public speaking isn't his thing. Oops.]

Um. Hi everyone. I'm-- I'm Finn. Finn Hudson. I just...I guess I wanted to say "hi".

And also, this place is kind of scary as hell.

[Everyone is granted the presence of the head of the Inquisition himself! His bright red armor and his Vatican's robes are displayed proudly, as is the giant cross on his armor. Anger, it seems, is Petros' downfall - along with pride ( Read more... )